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oblique angles

n. (oblique angle English)

Usage examples of "oblique angles".

Nevertheless his mind ran off on several oblique angles simultaneously.

Three women of the Gate stood at oblique angles to one another, forming a triangle.

Stubble darkened the hollows beneath his cheeks, enhancing the steep, oblique angles of the bones above them.

Suspensor tracks shot through it like worm holes -- straight, curved, flipping off at oblique angles .

Captain Townsend brought his guns forward and added canister to the havoc being wreaked by the American musketeers, who were now firing from oblique angles into a mass of soldiers caught in the closing trap.

The walls were set at oblique angles to each other, and the ceiling rose and fell like a wave on a turbulent ocean.

The combination of irrational brain and coldly precise nodes gave her an ability to dissect problems from oblique angles, fusing intuition and syllogism in a way no pure computer could match.

Likewise, in a darkened lab, with a cone-shaded halogen lamp focused at oblique angles, the boxes and their contents continued to appear clean.

The loading docks are one of the few areas that connect directly with the world outside of the city, and even then, the entryways are slanted at oblique angles to prevent the people working on the docks from gaining a potentially debilitating view of the outside.

The city, here, looked like Chicago's North Side, in the oblique angles of the intersect­.